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Evidence-based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare by Bernadette Melnyk & Ellen Fineout-Overholt
A Guide to Best Practice
Provides guidance to implementing evidence-based practice in nursing and healthcare. This text helps in: actualizing important concepts and overcoming barriers in the implementation of evidence-based care; efficient critical appraisal of both quantitative and qualitative evidence; and, how to factor in a clinician's expertise and patient values.This user-friendly resource to evidence-based practice will serve as a guide to implementing evidence-based practice in nursing and healthcare. "Real-life" examples assist the reader in actualizing important concepts and overcoming barriers in the implementation of evidence-based care; efficient critical appraisal of both quantitative and qualitative evidence; how to factor in a clinician's expertise and patient preferences/values when making decisions about patient care; chapters on outcomes management and how to create a vision to motivate a change to best practice; chapters on generating both qualitative and quantitative evidence; how to write a successful grant proposal; as well as a chapter on how to disseminate evidence to other professionals, the media, and policy-makers.The text also includes web-alerts that direct readers to helpful internet resources and an accompanying CD-ROM with 40 evidence reviews written by experts in the field that answer burning clinical questions across six specialty areas: adults in critical/acute care; adults in primary care; aging; emergency & trauma care; high-risk children and youth; and, psychiatric mental health. |
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| Author(s) : | Format : Paperback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0781744776 | ISBN-13 : 9780781744775 |
| RRP : £32.00 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Country Publication : United States
Publication Date : 01/06/2004
Publisher : Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Page Length : 624mm
Page Size : 232mm